Gordana Paton's Page

My organization

IKS Association

Website

http://www.petrinja.com

Address

Gajeva 40a Petrinja 44250 Croatia

What we do as an organization (100-word description)

IKS is a community non-profit organisation providing computer skills courses for the unemployed, senior citizens, children and other community members. We also have a youth club and an info point for other community organisations for sharing knowledge and assisting each other with resources. We are also involved in many other community projects and english language courses.

My function in the organization

Member, Trainer and Employment Advisor

What ICT or e-Skill training programs does your organization offer?

general computer skills (ICDL), multimedia, web and other customised community programs.

What other training services does your organization provides?

english language, soon to start german language classes and training and advisory services for unemployed members of the community.

Other services and activities:

Youth Club
Community Active Citizens programs in partnership with Local democracy agency Sisak

Target groups

community
specifically unemployed people
minority groups
others requiring computer skills

Partners: (other NGOs)

various agencies

Partners: (private sector)

donors

Partners: (government)

municipality and local government

How we contribute to the network

Best practices/Success stories, Training materials, Evaluation tools/methodologies, Data and statistics, Resources for training instructors/teachers, Business and management training for NGOs

Other ways of contributing to the network (please describe):

experience - sharing of ideas and methodologies in general

How you got in touch with this social network site?

Somebody pointed it to me

My personal areas of interest or expertise

adult education and training expert
community experience, working with unemployed
human resources experience
english language native speaker
neuro linguistic programming (NLP) certified